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NutriAIDE - Building smart food environments for improved nutrition - subproject 3 (NutriAIDE)
Project
Project code: 2820FENV07
Contract period: 01.07.2021
- 28.02.2025
Budget: 258,575 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: nutrition education, nutrition, nutrition competence, digital world, food pattern, modeling, obesity, human nutrition, nutritional information/recommendation, knowledge transfer, networking
The project examines the dietary behaviors, nutrition-related decision-making, and self-quantification of overweight and obese urban middle-class consumers in India and develops an app-based approach to transform their respective food environments. Nutrition, geography, psychology, and sustainability researchers are collaborating with private sector software developer Calvry Wellness Solutions Ltd. to design, test, and then launch an application software (app) called NutriAIDE. The app will empower consumers to change their dietary patterns - characterized by a high demand for industrially processed foods and the associated intake of high levels of sugar, salt, and fat - in favor of eating nutritious, locally produced, and plant-based foods. The app serves consumers* to (i) measure, evaluate, and change their personal food routines in different social settings (e.g., grocery shopping, out-of-home catering); and to (ii) collectively reshape socially shared food environments to favor the consumption of healthy food, strengthen the position of local food producers/processors, and promote environmental protection. As part of the project, the Wuppertal Institute will prioritize an analysis of regional value chains of important food products and record the ecological footprint of eating habits, which will enable transnational comparisons. Based on the collected primary data, ecological impact assessments will be carried out. This should show which products are particularly recommendable from a local ecological perspective and thus support the project objective.
Section overview
Subjects
- Nutritional behaviour
- Climate Change
